Alphabet Soup
What is Safety Data Sheet?
All containers of Hazardous Materials must have this.
What are labels?
A material that is harmful and can cause injury.
What is a hazardous substance.
Another name for the HazCom standard.
What is "Right to Know" law
Inhalation, absorption, ingestion, injection
What are the four routes of chemical exposure??
OSHA
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
In addition to labels, inventories and training, HazCom requires __________.
What is a written program.
This international organization authored GHS.
Who is the United Nations.
The temperature at which a liquid will give off enough flammable vapor to ignite.
What is flash point?
This type of exposure to a chemical can result in cancer, lung disease or sensitization even at low concentrations.
What is chronic?
IDLH
What is Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health.
Before assigning an employee to work with chemicals and when new chemicals are brought onsite.
When is HazComm training required?
These symbols are used in labeling.
What are pictograms?
To comply with HazCom employers must keep a library of SDSs and an _________ of chemicals onsite.
What is inventory.
Materials that burn when ignited at or below room temperature.
What are flammables.
PEL
What is Permissible Exposure Limit.
29 CFR 1910.1200
What is the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard?
These are the only two "signal words" used on chemical labels.
What are "Danger" and "Warning"
Chemicals with a low pH are called ______.
What are acids?
Corrosive, explosive, flammable.
What are physical hazards.
NFPA
National Fire Protection Association
Food, liquor, drugs, and small quantities of household chemicals.
What are substances exempt from the HazComm standard.
First Aid Measures, Physical & Chemical properties, Disposal guidance, etc.
What are some sections of an SDS.
How to respond to spills, how to recognize exposure, how to read an SDSs, etc.
What must HazCom training include?
Chemicals with high ______ tend to pose a greater inhalation risk because they can easily get into the air.
What is vapor pressure.